CORNER MARKET WITH RICH FIELD

You have experienced times where your presence with yourSelf and your world feels right and good.  Coinciding events in life also go better than usual.  This sense of self is something innate and your rightful state when you are paying attention and living well.  You have probably noticed that this state of being is ineffable -- cannot be described adequately with mere words.  That is the nature of the Mystery.  We seek the Numinous which is our only sure source of successful living.   How to make this state consistent in daily life?  You already have clues about the 'how' from what you were doing that activated this Presence.  But in our daily lives we can't always recall or recreate that situation.  Time for reading or time for prayer or time to just appreciate what's around you might be rare.  We are attentive to the action at hand and sometimes the programmed action of society seems opposed to our attention with making time for what'...

 I first met Otis Burlingame under annoying circumstances. Fragments of glass bounced off his head, ruining my drink, and making the bar unfit for human occupancy.  A large man had removed the glass framed business license from the wall and busted it over Burlingame's head.  The historical business license had been traditional reading material in my solitary drinking.  Concern was shown in conversation by other customers at the bar. "Black Velvet Seven." "Beer and a shot of Seagrams." "Need a refill here."   From memory, that's how I began my first novel.  The protagonist who is me drove the injured man in his Lincoln Mark IV for some stitches at the hospital.  The injured man was a blindsided martial arts instructor.  He had the unusual style of training his students to fight Bandido bikers in bars. I joined his unorthodox dojo and trained accordingly with some proper fueling in courage.  20 years later, I purchased a Lincoln Mark IV.  ...

 Now for a newsletter. HOW TO LEAVE A LEGACY.   LIVE WELL   Live by what you see as eternal principles. What you create will be eternal.  You are creating, not leaving. Legacy becomes more important as you get older.  Yet I've noticed that some of the best legacies have been created by men when they are young.  It takes time to build.  To know one's purpose when younger benefits the following generations.  A legacy should be a natural occurrence in the process of aware living.   Not all cases of a legacy will benefit genetic children.  That is an ideal, yet sometimes the lineage breaks down through what might be a feature of the system rather than a defect in the system.  I have no children at age 72.  Grandnephews and grandnieces are of great interest to me but the choice of participating in what I advocate and pass along is up to them. I still live for a legacy that is energized by the continuance of something crucial an...